The Boston Globe's Peter Abraham writes that while the Boston Red Sox are "impressed with the talents of Japanese righthander Masahiro Tanaka, they do not expect to be contenders for his services." Source: Boston Globe 1/4/2014

FoxSports' Ken Rosenthal mentions that the Arizona Diamondbacks could make an offer in the 140 US million dollar range (includes twenty million posting fee). Source: ESPN 1/3/2014 via Sponichi 1/4/2014

Did the Eagles finalize the contract they were working on with Jones? I don’t remember reading anything about it. I think the news was that Jones was planning to stay and close to finalizing a one-year deal.